<p>Everyone on this board, get this across your head. If you have below a 3.5 in high school and graduate with a lower GPA, you will not be going to a top college. If your SAT score is below a 1750 then chances are you won’t go to a top school either.</p>
<p>Look, few people go on to schools like the Ivies, Stanford, MIT and Cal Techs, those are for the people who did outstanding in high school. The ones who do outstanding in high school get rejected so THEY apply as transfers to those schools and they are the ones getting accepted. If you have poor high school grades, no matter how well you do in college you won’t get into the top schools as a transfer, period. It is common sense that if you do bad in high school then you won’t do good in college.</p>
<p>High school excellence means everything when you apply to the top colleges and even the top grad programs.</p>